Operation Kid Comfort, operated at The Armed Services YMCA Fort Bragg, provides custom quilts and pillows to the children of deployed service members stationed in North and South Carolina. Quilts are provided at no cost to the families receiving them.

Fort Bragg is the worlds most populated military installation in the world. This means that the Armed Services YMCA Fort Bragg simply cannot serve Fort Bragg's military population alone - we rely on support from volunteers to meet the needs of families stationed here.

The Armed Services YMCA Surprises Four Year Old Military Child at Pre-School with His Operation Kid Comfort Quilt while His Father is Deployed to Afghanistan

Giselle Schneider, the Armed Services YMCA Program Director for Operation Kid Comfort, will be making a surprise Operation Kid Comfort quilt presentation to a little boy whose father is currently deployed to Afghanistan in partnership with his mother and school.
The surprise presentation will be at Golden Pond Pre-school in Ashburn, VA on Friday, Oct 18th from 10:30am to 11am.

" I cried watching my little ones open the package. My husband cried seeing the pictures. My kids have cried with happiness talking about Daddy. And, my four year old now wants to quilt the whole house with pictures of Daddy - starting with the curtains and the couch. They certainly put some much needed happiness in our home. " -The Hester Family

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Creating comfort through free custom-made quilts for children of deployed military personnel

Created in 2004 at Ft. Bragg/Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville, N.C., the Armed Services YMCA's Operation Kid Comfort is designed to address the emotional stress that children of military personnel suffer during a parent’s absence from home, providing free quilts for children ages 6 and under and pillows for children ages 7 and older (although the Armed Services YMCA does do quilts for wheelchair bound and special needs military children, please specify on your application if needed).

Members of Ramona Back Country Quilters filled their meeting room in Ramona Community Center on Tuesday for a “cut-in” to prepare kits of cut fabrics for other sewers to assemble into small children’s quilts, called “Comfort Quilts.”